I think it would be helpful and liberating for modern-day Christians to realize how much more understanding and forgiving the Torah was toward “sinners,” especially when women were concerned.

Eve offered the forbidden fruit to Adam, but she did not yet even exist when God told Adam alone not to eat it, so he did not tell her! She also makes two interesting factual errors 1) when she tells the snake that God had said that even touching the fruit would cause death and 2.) when she identifies the forbidden tree as the one standing “in the middle of the garden” (Gen. 3:2 when we know from Gen. 2:9 that the Tree of Life is the first tree mentioned as standing there and the forbidden Tree only the second. She seems to think it was standing there alone!

Both errors suggest how vaguely Adam seems to have informed her about what God had actually told him concerning the prohibition! And of course she did not force or blackmail him into eating it! He ate it on his own responsibility, not hers, in direct violation of what God had warned him not do to! And speaking of forgiveness, although God had told him that he would “die” if he did eat it, he is nevertheless forgiven his mistake and allowed to continue living!
(Gen. 2:17).

Again, the daughters of Lot commit incest with him, mistakenly thinking that after the destruction of Sodom the three of them are the only humans left alive and that they therefore have an obligation to “be fruitful and multiply”) Tamar and Rahab both prostitute themselves and Ruth as a Moabite is not supposed to have married Boaz. As a Moabite, she is a product of the incest between Lot and his daughters and on his mother’s side Boaz is supposed to have been the son of the former prostitute, Rahab, while on his father’s, Salman’s side, he was a descendant of Tamar’s incestuous prostitution with her own father-in-law, Judah, through one of her two twins, Perez!

So through Ruth and Boaz both King David and his descendant, Jesus Christ, have origins that are deeply enmeshed in multiple cases of incest and prostitution! This cannot be told to us for no reason!

We therefore see that Jesus’ lenient attitude toward the woman taken in adultery has a long history that is intricately embedded in his own genealogy and in the Torah’s forgiving attitude toward human frailty in general, especially where women are concerned!

How ironic that the Torah is a lot more understanding and forgiving toward human frailty and toward women in general, dating perhaps from 3000 years ago or more, than many conservative Christians are today in 2025, although the very Bible that they say they revere teaches them otherwise!

I honestly think that Jesus spent most of his time with Jews and didn’t spend much interacting with Gentiles at all. When he sent his disciples out to teach, he declared that Jews are the priority of his ministry and that his disciples should aim to teach them, rather than Samaritans or Gentiles. (Matt 10:5) Only at the end does he release his disciples to go to the ends of the earth.

It’s pretty likely that Jesus was bilingual, speaking both Hebrew and Aramaic. Aramaic was a “lingua franca” – a language that everyone speaks in the marketplace so that they don’t need a translator. If he was interacting with Gentiles it probably would have been in Aramaic. Hebrew was spoken as a living language during the first century – most of the Dead Sea Scrolls are in Hebrew, as well as the earliest rabbinic documents. Here’s a good lecture on the the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6Gybwk8eY

Before I though everybody were Jews but now I notice the fenícian woman and who were those living in Decapolis?

It seems that Jesus didn’t interact only with Jews but also with non-Jews!
What language did they speak and could the apostles understand them?

All the disciples that LORD JESUS selected had knowledge of the OT Scriptures having been raised as part of the Synague culture & traditions taught there. KING JESUS used Scripture continuously with them as being fulfilled in HIM.

See the book: Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey

That’s a good thought, Chuck. Actually Paul comes up in quite a few places in this next book. The book is not focused on the words of Jesus per se, but on the big-picture cultural ideas that make the Bible as a whole hard to understand. Several places I point out how Paul’s words make more sense in that light.

Ironically, though, I quote Ken Bailey in saying that the idea that Paul was a theologian but Jesus was not is actually a product of Western misunderstanding. It wasn’t until Bailey had lived in the Middle East for decades that he discovered how they communicated very sophisticated ideas in a very different way – through parables and proverbs. Once he grasped this, he (like others) concluded that Jesus’ theological prowess easily outshines Paul’s. I wrote a chapter called “Greek Brain, Hebrew Brain” where I discuss this.

I agree with Corey, and what a wonderful idea! Even with the Hebrew/Greek Study Bible that is currently out, it does not cover the information being revealed in your books. I have made so many notes in my Bible it’s a mess, LOL!! I would love a study Bible containing all the great information you are revealing. I know it would be a HUGE undertaking, and would require you to convene a large number of people together to work with you, but what a great project. Maybe after you finish your next book?